Outlook on my desktop computer has gotten ridiculously slow to start
up; yet, I got a new laptop and imported the PST file into Outlook on
that machine a couple months ago, and it remains very fast.

We're talking several minutes to start up on the desktop, and a few
seconds on the laptop, with the same accounts, same settings, same
email folders, etc. Same version of Windows (XP-Pro), Office 2003 on
both machines. The desktop PC has plenty of CPU power, storage, and
memory.

I reformatted the drive on my desktop in September and reloaded all
software, but Outlook is really slow to get going.

Any suggestions on how to give Outlook a speed boost on my desktop pc?

thanks in advance,
gary hillerson

Gary Hillerson, you wrote on Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:31:13 -0800:

Outlook on my desktop computer has gotten ridiculously slow to start
up; yet, I got a new laptop and imported the PST file into Outlook on
that machine a couple months ago, and it remains very fast.

We're talking several minutes to start up on the desktop, and a few
seconds on the laptop, with the same accounts, same settings, same
email folders, etc. Same version of Windows (XP-Pro), Office 2003 on
both machines. The desktop PC has plenty of CPU power, storage, and
memory.

I reformatted the drive on my desktop in September and reloaded all
software, but Outlook is really slow to get going.

Any suggestions on how to give Outlook a speed boost on my desktop pc?

thanks in advance,
gary hillerson

What happens, when you start Outlook in safe-mode?

Start | Run | outlook.exe /safe

Does Outlook also need so much time to start up? If not, an installed
add-in causes the problem. Then try to solve the problem by deleting the
file "extend.dat" - in this file the registry-informations of the
add-ins are buffered -, that you find in

C:\Documents and Settings\%Username%\Local Settings\Application
Datas\Microsoft\Outlook

After a restart, Outlook will recreate this file.

If this does not help, run a repair of Outlook

? | Detect and Repair

Also a new profile could help.

Control Panel | Mail | Show profiles


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Best Regards
Christian Goeller